祕 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. ひそか、何かに隠され中身が漏れず、見えない。
  2. ひめる、かくす。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「示」+音符「必」。によれば、古くは「神」を表した。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

mysterious, secret, abstruse

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
Kun (native)
  • ひ(める)
  • かく(す)
Other languages
  • 拼音mi4
  • 한글bi
  • Hán-Việt

Basics

Strokes
10 strokes
Radical
示(しめす)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+7955

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰示必

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-5-5
Four Corner
3320.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
5d5.6
Nelson
3236